Course description
If you are considering a career in arts management Trinity College’s MBA is provides the ideal progamme to help you achieve your ambition. It is offered part time or full time, and provides a wealth of networking oppportunities in the sector including work placements.
The MBA will explore today’s arts and culture issues in depth, and develop the management skills to strengthen your performance within the wider context of arts management issues in Wales, the UK and beyond.
The course is divided into four main elements:
* Arts modules exploring arts funding, client management and the creative industries
* Management modules: finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy, using arts-based case studies.
* Research and project work preparing you for a Dissertation or Major Project.
* Work placements for all students, whether full or part-time, in an arts environment.
How and where will I learn?
Art
Weekly attendance at Trinity College includes lectures, seminars and group work. You can arrange your own study schedule, keeping in touch with tutors and students via email. Assignments can be tailored to your own context, but they will be designed to broaden your experiences by applying new concepts and techniques.
How much study time will I need?
Each 10 credit module equates to approximately 100 hours of study, including lectures, seminars, reading, and preparing assignments. Overall, the course will take two to three years part time for the full MBA, or up to two academic years for the full time MBA.
Will the course offer me the flexibility I need?
Flexibility is designed into the course to help you achieve your goals whilst meeting your work and life commitments. You also have the option to exit the course at three points, gaining a qualification for the study you have completed:
Postgraduate Certificate (6 modules, 60 credits)
Postgraduate Diploma (12 modules, 120 credits)
In addition, completing the 60 credit Dissertation will give you a full MBA, totalling 180 credits.
Why Trinity?
* Our staff is committed to effective partnership working in the Arts and have wideranging
teaching and research experience
* The MBA Arts Management is the only one of its kind in the UK
* We offer bilingual delivery where possible
* The MBA is supported by Arts organisations and professionals from all fields
* An MBA increases the range of potential career choices available to Arts professionals
* MBAs are increasingly sought after in public sector organisations under government pressure for improved performance at reduced costs
* MBAs contribute to the success of all businesses, particularly as they scramble for niche markets in an increasingly globalised marketplace
* An MBA increases the self-confidence and personal effectiveness of the manager
